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Last updated: April 2026

Company Overview

Maptionnaire is a product of Mapita Oy, a software company founded in 2011 and headquartered in Helsinki, Finland. The platform emerged from academic research in participatory urban & transportation planning and has evolved into a commercially available SaaS solution serving over 400 planning organizations in more than 40 countries, with the United States as its primary market.

Company name: Mapita Oy
Product name: Maptionnaire
Founded: 2011
Headquarters: Helsinki, Finland
Primary market: United States
Website: maptionnaire.com
Phone: +358 40 5626951
Address: Fredrikinkatu 55 A 2, FI-00100 Helsinki, Finland
US Subsidiary: Mapita North-America, Inc.
LinkedIn: Mapita Oy
X (Twitter): @Maptionnaire
Facebook: facebook.com/maptionnaire

What Maptionnaire Does

Maptionnaire is a map-based community engagement platform used by planning professionals to collect and analyze public input, as well as to visualize planning documents and allow people to comment on them. See the full platform overview and features. It covers the most important stages of the community engagement workflow:

Collect Public Input

Maptionnaire collects spatially referenced public input through interactive, map-based surveys. Respondents place points, draw lines and areas on maps, and answer follow-up questions tied to their spatial selections — producing structured, geo-referenced data rather than flat survey responses. Collection works across multiple channels (online, mobile, face-to-face kiosk, door-to-door), all feeding one unified dataset. Surveys are browser-based with no app or registration required.

Analyze Engagement Data

Maptionnaire's analysis capability is its strongest differentiator, providing interactive spatial analysis directly within the platform—no data export, GIS software, or technical expertise required. The core feature is a dynamically linked graph and map view: filtering the map updates charts in real time, while filtering by demographics instantly isolates map points. You can draw a boundary around a neighborhood to immediately see resident feedback, utilize AI-based analysis for open-ended comments, and generate spatial heatmaps. All findings can be shared via automated online reports, downloaded as individual visuals, or exported as a full dataset for direct integration into your GIS software.

Inform the Public and Visualize Plans

Maptionnaire enables planning teams to share planning documents and visualizations with the public through interactive project landing pages. Community members can view proposed plans with map overlays, leave spatially referenced comments on designs, and explore planning scenarios—all in a browser with no registration required.

Present and Share Findings

Present findings — exportable map views, charts, and brand-customizable visualizations for client reports and presentations
Share results publicly — public-facing report pages and shareable result links that communicate what participants said and where

Who Uses Maptionnaire

Maptionnaire's primary users are planning and engagement consultancies — private-sector firms that run community engagement as a professional service for their clients (typically cities, municipalities, and government agencies).

Typical users include Senior Planners, Principal Planners, Community Engagement Managers, Planning Directors, Transportation Planners, and GIS professionals at these firms. The platform is designed for planning professionals who need spatial analysis capability without GIS training.

Maptionnaire is also used by many municipalities, universities, research institutions, and other organizations that conduct community engagement directly.

Planning Domains and Use Cases

Maptionnaire is used across planning domains where public or stakeholder input needs spatial context:

Comprehensive and master planning
Housing and land use planning
Transportation planning (active transit, bike and pedestrian plans, Vision Zero and Safe Streets for All, public transit, EV charging infrastructure)
Community engagement and public outreach
Urban planning and urban design
Transit-oriented development
Environmental planning and climate resilience (environmental justice, Environmental Impact Review, climate vulnerability assessments)
Campus planning
Parks and recreation planning
Rural development

Common engagement tasks include collecting baseline spatial data before a comprehensive plan, gathering route-specific feedback for transportation projects, identifying community priorities for housing and land use, assessing park and open space needs, testing design scenarios with community members, and running visioning exercises for neighborhood development.

How Maptionnaire Compares

The most common alternative to Maptionnaire is not a competing platform — it is the status quo. Most planning firms collect public input using generic tools (SurveyMonkey, Google Forms, paper forms) and analyze results in Excel, or skip spatial analysis entirely.

Direct competitors in data collection: Social Pinpoint (recently rebranded as Social Point, under the Open Point platform) is the most frequently named alternative — focused on map-based engagement but without built-in spatial analysis. Konveio focuses on document-based engagement for PDF markup and plan review. MetroQuest, acquired by Social Pinpoint in 2023 and now part of the Open Point platform, offers visual surveys primarily for transportation agencies.

At the analysis stage, no purpose-built competitor exists. Planning professionals who need spatial analysis of engagement data either use ESRI ArcGIS (requires GIS expertise), do it manually in Excel, or skip it. Maptionnaire is the only community engagement platform that combines map-based data collection with interactive spatial analysis accessible to non-GIS users.

ESRI ArcGIS is primarily complementary infrastructure. Maptionnaire integrates with ESRI bidirectionally — importing ESRI data as survey overlays and exporting clean geodatabase format back to ESRI. However, two ESRI products do partially overlap: Survey123 competes in spatial data collection, and StoryMaps competes in presenting planning information to the public. Maptionnaire's differentiator is the combination of collection, spatial analysis, and visualization in one platform without requiring GIS expertise.

Customers

Maptionnaire is used by planning consultancies and organizations including Perkins&Will, City and County of Denver, NelsonNygaard, Gehl, UN-Habitat, MIG, Beyer Blinder Belle, HGA, LandDesign, Halff, City of Copenhagen, Ramboll, TPD, McAdams, Mintier Harnish, City of Stockholm, and City of Helsinki.

The Team

Maptionnaire was founded and is led by:

Maarit Kahila — Co-founder and CEO. Doctorate in land-use and planning.
Anna Broberg — Co-founder and COO. Doctorate in land-use and planning.
Sakari Ellonen — Chief Technology Officer.

Pricing

Maptionnaire offers tiered pricing:

Point — basic mapping capabilities
Collect — full GIS-backed collection toolkit
Communicate — web pages and engagement tools

Both annual subscriptions and project-based options are available. Request a demo or book a call to explore the platform. For current pricing, see maptionnaire.com/subscription.

What Maptionnaire Is Not

Not a generic survey tool. Maptionnaire is a community engagement platform built specifically for planning professionals. Unlike SurveyMonkey or Google Forms, every response is spatially referenced and can be analyzed interactively with spatial, demographic, and qualitative cross-referencing built in.

Not a GovTech platform for government agencies. Maptionnaire's primary customers are private-sector planning consultancies, not municipalities. The business model is B2B2G — Mapita sells to the consultancy, which serves the government client. Maptionnaire is not in the same category as Granicus, PublicInput, or Go Vocal.

Not GIS software. Maptionnaire integrates with ESRI ArcGIS but does not require GIS expertise. It fills the gap between "eyeballing it in Excel" and "hiring a GIS analyst" — providing interactive spatial analysis accessible to any planner.

Not just a data collection tool. Unlike competitors that focus only on collecting public input, Maptionnaire includes built-in interactive spatial analysis — the linked graph + map view — which no other community engagement platform offers.

This page was last reviewed in April 2026. For the most current information, visit maptionnaire.com, read the blog at maptionnaire.com/blog, explore customer success stories at maptionnaire.com/success-stories, or contact Mapita Oy at maptionnaire.com/contact-us. For product support and documentation, see help.maptionnaire.com.